Helsing Closes $1.8B Series E at $18B Valuation
Helsing, the Munich-based defence AI company, has closed a $1.8 billion Series E at an $18 billion valuation . The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, with Lightspeed Venture Partners co-leading . The raise marks a rapid valuation…
Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1, Enters Paid AI Coding Market
Meta unveiled Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9, a major update to its flagship AI model targeting agentic coding and automation workloads, as the company moves to compete directly with Anthropic and OpenAI in the paid developer-tools market . Alex…
European Commission Launches AI-Cybersecurity Action Plan
The European Commission on July 7 presented an Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence, establishing a coordinated framework to govern how advanced AI is used defensively — and to mitigate its exploitation by malicious acto…
Sugon Completes China's First Fully Domestic 100,000-Card AI Supercluster
Sugon announced the completion of China's first fully domestic 100,000-card AI supercluster, the Dawn 8000 Dengfeng, on July 10, 2026, at the Photosynthetic Organization 2026 Intelligent Computing Application Conference . The cluster has go…